PIETU ARVOLA - Silmät sulaa LP Occult Soon I became obsessed by

Soon I became obsessed by the record but nobody seemed to know anything about the vinyl or the artists

Based between London and Sheffield

escaping the prison of human perception

” says pedal steel guitarist Jonathan Gregg

Their stock in trade is a rough-hewn take on 70s rock – there are what must contractually be referred to as “duelling guitars” in the style of Thin Lizzy

PIETU ARVOLA - Silmät sulaa LP Occult Soon I became obsessed byFollowing his brilliant but unrelentingly sorrowful previous album, Arvola returns with Silmt sulaa a record he describes as my summer album. And of course, its warmth feels more like a heatstroke from a sun too close. Inside the sun kissed soundscapes drift memories of sunburnt skin, the burning of a childhood home, heat exhaustion during an At The Gates show, the smell of melting asphalt, and a bat circling above a hospital bed, struck mid air by a